Post by Consuelo on Mar 18, 2023 13:25:15 GMT
May 20, 2020 0:45:07 GMT Kunlong Jin said:
Excuse me for giving an analogy here first of all before I make my comments. I am wondering how many people eat MacDonald's in different shops around the world. Through travelling and studying these years, I have eat burgers in China, Japan, Russia, Australia, UK and India. Indeed, it is amazing to see the same type of food tastes different in various regions and countries. For example, Big Mac is common burger sold in almost all stores around the world. I found Japan has got the wasabi sauce within it for one of the flavour of course. India have the curry flavour. Right, they taste different not only because they want to be different in flavours, but also they need to change a little bit to meet the local people's needs. This is one of the business strategies though. If you cannot meet customers' needs, they will be no business in that areas. Back to English learning and English teaching, we must have a standard English in the front because that is what we are going to teach our next generation right way to speak and write. Either for exam-oriented purposes or professional career development. However, we have to bear in mind that taking the various of English usage is extremely important because it is part of their culture and identity. If one has got an accent, Chinese accent, Indian accent, he/she does not need to change it or pursue a native English accent because it is one part of themselves. Nobody should sacrifice their cultural and identity simply by learning a new language and adopting a new culture. You can absolutely try to be involved in the English language and culture as much as possible but stick to a standard criteria and strictly follow the rules are really not necessarily what we, as a non-native speakers of English, should aim for.